Chokecherry

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.

    "The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . ."

  2. 2
    a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds wordnet
  3. 3
    The fruit of this plant.

    "There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac."

  4. 4
    the fruit of the chokecherry tree wordnet

Etymology

From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.

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